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Daniel Brennan (he/him) is a queer writer and coffee devotee from New York. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize + Best of the Net, and has appeared in numerous publications, including The Penn Review, Birdcoat Quarterly, Sky Island Journal, and Feral Poetry. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @dannyjbrennan

Marisa P. Clark is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Bird (Unicorn Press, 2024). Her prose and poetry appear in Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Prairie Fire, Rust + Moth, Sundog Lit, Texas Review, and elsewhere. Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among its Notable Essays. A queer writer, she…

A. C. Silva is delighted to make her non-fiction debut in Qu Literary Magazine. Her short stories have appeared in The Bangalore Review, Add to Cart Magazine, and Splash! by Haunted Waters Press. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where she lives with…

Lara Boyle is a writer based in North Carolina. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, Newsweek, Business Insider, The Jerusalem Post, and more. She writes about the intersection of queerness, Disability, and Jewish identity.

Brecht De Poortere was born in Belgium and grew up in Africa. He currently lives in Paris, France. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Hudson Review, Grain, X-R-A-Y, The Baltimore Review and Consequence, amongst others, and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. You can follow him on X…

Herb Zarov began his career teaching American Literature at Smith College, and, after a career adjustment, went on to practice law for four decades at a large international firm. Since his retirement in 2019, he has been writing fiction. His stories have appeared in Jewishfiction.net, The Great Lakes Review, Scribble, and On the Run, and…